Re: 9.3 beta and materialized views

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.3 beta and materialized views
Date: 2013-05-16 17:59:34
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Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote on 16.05.2013 19:36:

>>> As the materialized view should be a "table" that can be
>>> selected from, I wonder what the purpose of the rewrite rule
>>> is?
>>
>> To store the matview's definition for use in REFRESH.
>>
> Ah, right. Makes sense.

It will also be used to drive incremental update (in future
releases), as it does in every other product with materialized
views that I know of.  In 9.3 we only got as far as explicit
REFRESH, but I hope to improve on that in 9.4.

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Kevin Grittner
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